[MPlayer-dev-eng] [bikeshed] Coding style

Michael Niedermayer michaelni at gmx.at
Fri Jun 20 21:24:00 CEST 2008


On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 06:00:24PM +0200, Alexander Roalter wrote:
> Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 06:27:43AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
> >> Bryan Henderson wrote:
> >>
> >>> Seems like it should be possible to program the backtab key to simply
> >>> move back to the previous tab stop, and it would be more natural
> >>> than hitting backspace.
> >> I've never heard of a backtab key, and if there is one on my current
> >> keyboard it certainly isn't labeled that way.
> > 
> > It most likely is. Ever looked closely at the tab key? And why there is
> > also an arrow to the left? Or in short, shift+tab is backtab.
> 
> Funnily enough, I'm doing some USB driver development now on a Apple USB 
> keyboard, apart from having F1-F19 and a '=' sign additionally on the 
> num block, the Tab key also has only one arrow to the right.

Apple products (mice, ipod, ...) have always just half the buttons one needs
to do a quarter of the common tasks.

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